Chaffetz: Boehner says be 'patient'

House Speaker John Boehner has urged patience on the issue of Benghazi, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican says in a new report.

“Now, the speaker has more patience than I do,” Chaffetz (R-Utah) told National Review in a story posted on Monday. “He has told me to be patient, that the truth will eventually surface. But I’m not a patient person, and if this administration makes us do this the hard way, that’s what we’ll do.”

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Chaffetz has long been a vocal critic of how President Barack Obama’s administration handled the deadly Sept. 11 attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, and has said that impeachment should be on the table.

“This is an administration embroiled in a scandal that they created,” Chaffetz said in the piece. “It’s a cover-up. I’m not saying impeachment is the end game, but it’s a possibility, especially if they keep doing little to help us learn more.”

Boehner is also committed to pursuing the issue, a POLITICO report from earlier this month showed, something Chaffetz nodded to in that piece. “More and more, I’m appreciating the wisdom of Boehner,” he said in the story.

“The cautious tone that he takes — he’s really convinced me that you don’t have to rush this stuff,” Chaffetz said in the POLITICO piece. “You’re not going to get all this done in three weeks, as much as you’d like to. I’d like to keep moving as fast as possible, but these things take a long time to go through.”

The Benghazi issue, a hot-button political topic last fall, regained steam among some Republicans earlier this month amid reports that official talking points had been altered to strip out references to terrorism. Some of those emails were released last week, and White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer swung back at GOP criticism during appearances on the Sunday shows.

“The assertions from Republicans here that somehow the president allowed this to happen or didn’t take action is offensive,” Pfeiffer said on “Fox News Sunday.” “It is absolutely offensive. And there’s no evidence to support it.”

Chaffetz, for his part, has said for several weeks that impeachment should stay on “the table.”

“It’s certainly a possibility,” he said of impeachment tied to Benghazi during an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune posted on May 13. “That’s not the goal but given the continued lies perpetrated by this administration, I don’t know where it’s going to go. … I’m not taking it off the table. I’m not out there touting that but I think this gets to the highest levels of our government and integrity and honesty are paramount.”